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The inevitable holiday porn pun
(Transparently, celebratorily, crude and graceless, not for kids or the sexually modest.) (the Day of the Vampire) Very briefly, today’s holiday greetings from the rampant sexpigs at Fort Troff:...
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The wrap artist
Yet another Sick Day for me, so this is a minimal posting — you’ll have to google up stuff on your own — but I was so taken by today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro that I wanted to share it with you (with a...
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In the realm of the footstools
the rabbits of December take us to the hidden spot in the tropical jungle where ottomans rule among the palm trees, as depicted in this John McPherson Close to Home cartoon of 2/14/15: (#1) A pun on...
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Elfshelfisms
Two especially satisfying examples of the elfshelfism, a riddle form presented visually: (#1) Image: a cute furry mammal clinging to a bone. Punchline: lemur on a femur. (note: like elf and shelf,...
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Lizardry
(#1) Xmas card from Tiny Bee Cards, offered on Amazon Lizard warnings, lizzard warnings, lizards falling from the trees. Lizard warnings. I wrote on Facebook on 12/22: I know these dire weather...
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Eggs Benedict Arnold
Suppose you’re a cartoonist, and this POP (phrasal overlap portmanteau) has, well, popped into your head: eggs Benedict Arnold = eggs Benedict (breakfast dish of sliced ham on English muffin with...
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Seeker of wise spud, rudely rebuffed
The Wayno / Piraro Bizarro for New Year’s Eve Eve is a goofy amalgam of two different cartoon memes with an egregious pun; Wayno’s title is “Reclusive Russets” (russets being a type of potato). No, of...
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But wait! There’s Balthazar!
(Definitely a Mary, Queen of Scots Not Dead Yet posting, signaling that I’m still here, after several deeply awful days of medical afflictions — an experience I’ll record in a separate posting, rather...
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Adventures in cartoon understanding: Victor alignment
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro (Wayno’s title “Job Satisfaction”): (#1) To understand this cartoon, you need to know something about what a tire and auto service garage does, and you need to recognize...
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The risonymic riff
From my mountainous posting queue, this gem of a risonymic riff: (#1) Bodysnatch Cummerbund, Buffalo Custardbath, Bumblesnuff Crimpysnatch, Mr. Cabbagewank — four mockings, ridiculous manglings, of the...
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January 27th
Every so often the accidents of the calendar bring together remarkably contrasting occasions. This is a day of such cognitive dissonance. Weep with me. Gasp in pleasure and delight with me. First,...
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Hello, Dalí!
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro plunges us into a double play on words, plus a visual parody — offered on a platter — as well: (#1) To understand the cartoon, you need to know about kosher delis (deli,...
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The wildebeest caper
trois lapins to inaugurate the month of February. But wait! Are those the hoofbeats of … wildebeests? Stand clear! Make way for gnus! Out with the old month, in with the gnu. From my 5/31/13 posting...
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Bizarro orientations
Two Bizarro cartoons from 2021, touching on questions of sexual orientation: (#1) A Piraro Bizarro from 11/7/21: imperfect pun on sexual (orientation): sectional, as in sectional furniture ‘furniture...
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Today’s exercise in cartoon understanding
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro — Wayno’s groan-punning title: “Tuffet Luck” — depends on your knowing one thing from popular culture in the Anglosphere (of, roughly, the past 200 years). If you don’t...
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Ruthie meets the challenge of the unfamiliar
It’s an old theme on this blog: 6-year-old Ruthie in the comic strip One Big Happy as a constantly entertaining source of efforts to cope with unfamiliar words and larger expressions by assimilating...
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Zwicky on the Art of the Skateboard
Notified via Google Alert on Saturday: on the Jenkem Magazine (skateboarding) site, “Allies: Calder Zwicky of MOMA” (with a YouTube video) by Alexis Castro & Ollie Rodgers on 10/2/18. Another...
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Thai Tanic restaurants
From the annals of goofy commercial names, in this case a Thai restaurant name that seems to be intended to project both playfulness — the name is a pun — and power, as in the model for the pun, the...
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Alien jeans
Today’s Wayno / Piraro Bizarro, featuring the straight-leg denim favored by the spacefolk who visit us in the Nevada desert: (#1) Levi’s 501® Originals, always the choice of the discerning visitors to...
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ICH BIN EIN BINLINER
Passed around in various forms on the net recently, this truly distant, extremely imperfect, pun, partly in German, partly in English, which does, however, come with the signature of its putative maker...
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